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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 2/11/21

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A Boy Named Yu

12:26

Crackers and/or cheese in your chili?

Dan Szymborski

12:26

KC Breath Mints

12:26

Dan, have you checked out Blaseball at all? Any interest? I stayed away all of last year but think I'll jump in when it kicks back up on Feb 22.

Dan Szymborski

12:26

From time to time, but I have so many interests on my plate!

Well-Beered Englishman

12:26

What team(s) do you think the projections are wrongest about?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

I'm actually far less in disagreement with ZiPS than usual

Sad, Confused Marlins Fan

12:28

Yay Adam Duvall! (rolls eyes) does this mean we wont see Bleday until September?

Dan Szymborski

12:28

I think that was always the case.

If the Marlins were itching to promote Bleday aggressively, I think we would have seen him last year

Guest

12:29

Big Tommy Pham fan here who used to root for stl and Tampa. I’m having trouble rooting for a team that has Machado on it though. Why do you think Preller looked the other way at his awful character and intentional foot stompings of 1st basemen. Why didn’t machado get a life time ban by the commissioner? I can’t call myself a decent human being and root for most of these teams. Most of them have embarrassing ethics/morals for various reasons. The commish is toothless joke...

Dan Szymborski

12:29

The MLBPA would rightly speak up about a lifetime ban for stuff like this.

The commish *is* toothless; he's not the owner of baseball. He's an employee of the owners.

And in the end, stars get signed.

12:30

Like Trevor Bauer has some real douchebro trolliness. But it's not like you can go to the Pitcher Store and get the Nice Edition off the shelf.

Mountie Votto

12:31

Is there offensive upside with the Reds? If you (perhaps foolishly) assume health, there's room for growth from Senzel, Aquino, Akiyama, Stephenson, and perhaps Winker, with the threat of big seasons from the masher veterans. The defense will be terrible but maybe the offense can click this year?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

There's some - the BABIP was unsightly low -- but I don't think there's a huge chance of them being GOOD

A Boy Named Yu

12:31

What are some ways you think Jed Hoyer will operate differently from Theo?

Dan Szymborski

12:31

For one, he's dealing with an organization that no longer is in a win-now mode.

A Boy Named Yu

12:32

Favorite sky blue uniform from the 80's?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

Phillies

Though they used that in the 70s too

Cardinals close

Cave Dameron

12:33

What do you think Ichiro's career WAR would be if he spend his entire career in MLB?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

Cool stuff, Cave!

Heh sorry

I did an ESPN piece on that some time ago

Don't have the link but Szymborski ESPN Ichiro should find it

Guest

12:33

What is it about Giolito that gives him ZiPS highest WAR projection for a pitcher, but Steamer has him behind Eovaldi and like 20 guys?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

I wrote a piece on him why ZiPS loves him.

But I can't tell you why Steamer does not.

Mountie Votto

12:33

WHY

WHY ARE

Dan Szymborski

12:33

SEND HELP

Jonah

12:34

You've shown the percentiles for ZiPS projection for featured player articles. Is there any where to see those projections for all players?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I'm not sure if we're going to go live with them this year, but they're in our database

A Boy Named Yu

12:34

Have you ever run a ZiPs for Michael Jordan's career? I think it'd be interesting to see what it does if you use his actual MiLB stats but start him as an 18 year old.

Dan Szymborski

12:34

Might be fun ZiPS Time Machine thing